06 August 2007

Florida GOP Legislator Caught Soliciting: "Blacks Made Me Do It"

Thedisgraced Florida State Rep Bob Allen returns to the headlines. The Republican legislator caught cruising a public restroom and offering to perform oral sex upon an undercover officer for $20 maintains his innocence and offers a not-so-novel defense strategy, what pop culture blogger Novaslim calls the "Lindsay Lohan Defense": The Black guys made me do it.

"I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't
there to exchange money for it," said Allen, R-Merritt Island, who was arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution.

"This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black
guys around in the park," Allen, who is white,& told police in a taped
statement after his arrest. Allen said he feared he "was about to be a
statistic" and would have said anything just to get away.[...]

When Allen was being placed in a marked patrol car, he asked whether "it
would help" if he was a state legislator, according to a police report. The
officer replied, "No."

Here is the delicious part: Allen was voted the Tampa Police Union's 2007 Lawmaker of the Year and the big black men that he allegedly feared—the "pretty stocky black guy" whom he offered $20 for oral, as well as the "other black guys" outside—were all "undercover officers staking out a nearby condo
hoping to catch a burglar."

This year alone, Allen sponsored six different sex crime bills this year and three focus on indecent exposure and soliciting sex. He has also supported amending the state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage and opposed a bill to curb the bullying of gay students.

And I bet the conservatives like Sean Hannity and such are going to jump right on the band wagon and try to act like he's the innocent guy as well and then all those people that listen to them and agree with them are going to be hypnotized as usual and jump on the band wagon as well. And then they're gonna figure out some way to blame liberals/Democrats